Новости за 15.07.2016

A former Minister of Aviation, Mr. Femi Fani-Kayode, has been released from detention after meeting his bail conditions. Fani-Kayode was released in Lagos, two months after his arrest, detention and arraignment by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. The former minister, who was the spokesman for the Goodluck Jonathan Campaign Organisation, was arrested on May […]

Folashade Adebayo The Lead Consultant, Perth Pacific Educational Consult, Prof. Oak Noah, has said that many teachers in Lagos public schools do not have email addresses and cannot handle advanced computer programmes. Noah said this on Wednesday at a training organised by the Teachers’ Establishment and Pensions Office for teachers in Lagos. The educationist, who […]

Former AC Milan striker Andriy Shevchenko was on Friday appointed coach of Ukraine, the 2004 Ballon d’Or winner’s first job as a manager. Following his appointment, Shevchenko picked former AC Milan defender Mauro Tassotti as one of his assistant coaches. The 39-year-old replaces Mykhaylo Fomenko who resigned after Ukraine were knocked out of Euro 2016 […]

Kaduna – Gov. Nasiru El-rufai of Kaduna State on Friday said anyone indicted by the Judicial Commission of Inquiry set up by the state government in December Shiites-Army clash in Zaria would be appropriately sanctioned. El-Rufai said this while receiving the report of the Commission in Kaduna. The commission, inaugurated in January, was mandated to […]

Ayo Olukotun Buharimeter” is essentially an online monitoring device, created by the Centre for Democracy and Development, to track the implementation of campaign promises made by President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo. Designed in the mould of “Obamameter”, the platform employs web-based applications complemented by policy and media evaluations as well as on […]

Lagos –  The Director General, Nigeria Employers’ Consultative Association (NECA), Mr Segun Oshinowo has condemned the picketing of NECA by a faction of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) describing it as criminal. Oshinowo spoke to newsmen on Friday in Lagos, while reacting to the picketing of NECA which disrupted its 59th Annual General Meeting (AGM). […]

Abuja  –   The Presidential Initiative on Continuous Audit has found discrepancies in the payroll of the Federal Government’s Ministries, Agencies and Departments to the tune of N5.7 billion monthly. The Head of the Continuous Audit Team, Mr Mohammed Dikwa, made this known in an interview with newsmen on Friday in Kano on the sideline of […]

Lagos –  “My wife’s lover, Temitope, gave my child his name on the day of christening,” a divorce seeker, Mr Femi Ojikutu, told an Igando Customary Court in Lagos on Friday. He said although the lover was not present he sent in the name. Ojikutu urged the court to grant his wife’s request for the […]

Ozioma Ubabukoh   Globacom on Friday sacked 54 of its power engineers across the country and gave no official reason for the sacking.   The PUNCH learnt that the affected workers received official notification from the company that it no longer needed their services. The notice of disengagement, it was gathered, also instructed them to […]

A faction of the Nigeria Labour Congress led by Joseph Ajaero has disrupted the Annual General Meeting of the employers group, Nigeria Employers’ Consultative Association. Members of the labour faction stormed NECA’s yearly meeting carrying and singing solidarity songs. See photos below:   Photos: Sodiq Adelakun

Folashade Adebayo The forex crisis rocking businesses and other establishments may have taken its toll on the education sector with the refusal of some elitist private schools to renew contracts with their expatriate teachers. Findings by our correspondent show that these schools could no longer cope with unfriendly exchange rates, which have inflated the salaries […]

Debit cards are revolutionising the way people are paying for goods and services. A report by an online group, gettingaheadassoc.org, explains how to make the most of a debit card’s convenient features *A debit card may look like a credit card, but it works like the electronic equivalent of a cheque. When you pay with […]

An eight-month-old baby boy lost in the chaos after a truck rammed into a crowd in the French Riviera city of Nice killing at least 84 people was tracked down through Facebook on Friday. Tiava Banner — who said she was not the mother of the baby — sent out an appeal on Facebook looking […]

Former Champions League finalists Monaco face a tricky third qualifying round tie against Turkey’s Fenerbahce after the draw was made in Nyon on Friday. Monaco, who were beaten 3-0 by Jose Mourinho’s Porto in the 2004 final, finished third in France’s Ligue 1 last season while Fenerbahce came second to Besiktas in the Turkish top […]

Fola Ojo He spread out piles of beautiful Hausa hats and other accompanying adornments he had up for sale on the display shelf.  Smooched in one of the stacks was a white “Awo” cap which caught my attention. I had been combing around Nigeria for two years or so in search of this type of […]

France playmaker Dimitri Payet handed West Ham a huge boost ahead of the new Premier League season by telling the club he is “100 per cent staying” with the Hammers. Payet had been linked with a move away from West Ham after backing up a superb debut season in England with several impressive performances for […]

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A German journalist who witnessed the Nice attack said he saw a motorcyclist chase the killer truck and try to enter the cabin but fall and end up under the wheels. “I stood on the balcony, right on the Promenade des Anglais, and saw how people celebrated there, and how suddenly a truck drove  through […]

Politicians from around the world have reacted with horror after a truck smashed into a crowd in the French resort of Nice, killing at least 84 as they watched a Bastille Day fireworks display. Following are the main reactions: – US President Barack Obama condemned what he said appeared to be a “horrific terrorist attack”. […]

Afeez Hanafi Two lovers, Emem Asuquo and Olugbenga Yakubu, have been remanded in prison by a Tinubu Magistrate’s Court sitting on Lagos Island for alleged public disturbance. They were arraigned on Wednesday on four counts of assault and conduct likely to cause breach of the peace before Magistrate A.A. Adefulire. PUNCH Metro learnt that an […]

Babatunde Fajimi Capital and how to find it in a recessed economy pose a major challenge to most people who want to own small businesses as entrepreneurs. These people are also depressed like the ancient mariner of the English poet, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who lamented that “water, water, everywhere, and all the boards did shrink; […]

Olufemi Atoyebi, Ibadan A textile trader in Gbagi Market, Ibadan, Oyo State, Kudirat Oduola, has been beaten to death by thugs allegedly sent by a co-trader who lent her N2m. Our correspondent learnt that the deceased, who was three months pregnant, had approached one Oriekun to assist her with the money to buy textile materials. […]

Ade Adesomoju, Abuja An 80-year-old man, Pius Enebeli, on Thursday made history by becoming the oldest new wig ever produced by the Nigerian Law School. Enebeli and 2,217 others, including a daughter of President Muhammadu Buhari, Halima, were called to the Bar at two separate ceremonies held in Abuja on Thursday. Buhari’s wife, Aisha, was […]

An attack in Nice, France, where a man rammed a truck into a crowd of people left 84 dead and another 18 in a “critical condition”, interior ministry spokesman Pierre-Henry Brandet said Friday. An unidentified gunman barrelled the truck two kilometres (1.3 miles) through a crowd that had been enjoying a fireworks display for France’s […]

Alexander Okere, Benin Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State on Wednesday described the plan of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party to reclaim the state in the September 10 governorship election as a campaign “dead on arrival.” Oshiomhole, who stated this during a stakeholders’ meeting of the All Progressives Congress in Benin, noted that the absence […]